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Anyone had someone design them a custom flash video player for their site? If so who did it and how much does it run? I am looking for someone to do this for me.

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For the branded, embeddable player described, the simplest robust pattern is to host a single player page on your domain (the actual player binary and chrome) and hand out a tiny embed snippet that points to that page. That keeps the logo/controls under your control, lets you update the chrome independently of the video files, and makes tracking and throttling much easier. As and observed, most of the visible work is the UI/skin — design the player so skins and assets are external and interchangeable so the core playback code stays the same.

Implementation notes that people tend to miss: keep the watermark as an overlay layer inside the player (not burned into the source file), position it with relative coordinates so it scales with width/height, and use vector artwork or a separate small PNG to avoid degrading the picture. Wrap the player in a simple host page that accepts a video ID/URL and poster image; for third-party embeds prefer an iframe wrapper (one-line snippet) so you retain control, collect analytics, and can rotate or revoke embeds without changing every host site. For delivery, plan for bandwidth: use a CDN or streaming for many viewers, and add a short-lived signed URL or referer checks if you need to prevent direct hotlinking.

Example embed pattern (iframe is easiest for third-party sites):

<iframe
  src="https://yourdomain.com/embed/player.html?video=https%3A%2F%2Fyourdomain.com%2Fvideos%2Fvideo1.mp4"
  width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen>
</iframe>

Operational tips: add lightweight play/start/complete pings for analytics, test common aspect ratios and low-bandwidth scenarios, and provide a graceful fallback (thumbnail or direct MP4 link). Note: Adobe ended Flash support on December 31, 2020; if this thread is being read years later, build the embeddable player in HTML5/JS (Video.js, Plyr or a small custom player) to get the same branded overlay, easier cross-platform support, and far better future-proofing than relying on a plugin.

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Member Avatar for Dani

What do you mean by a video player? Not the actual flash animation itself but something else?

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Right I mean the actual player.

For example: http://www.mustangevolution.com/viva-la-mustang-ford-releases-giugiaro-mustang-information/ the video on the page is hosted on webridestv and it uses its own flash player with its own custom look. I want to do this as well, create my own player that I can use to embed videos and then give visitors code to host them on their sites etc. I want to be able to watermark the player itself and not the actual video.

Does that makes sense?

Member Avatar for Member #114696

Well if you are using MX 2004 or later, you could probably insert a Video Component and do a ActionScript'n and you will get what you want. And yes you could use XML with that.

Member Avatar for roryt

There are several players for download for free on the internet and some that you can buy as well but if you had to have it custom built you need someone who works with flash design. You may be looking at forking out over $100 dollars atleast.

This is slightly off topic but, I think the CnetTV flash interface is very clever and runs far better than players like that on youtube.

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There are several players for download for free on the internet and some that you can buy as well but if you had to have it custom built you need someone who works with flash design. You may be looking at forking out over $100 dollars atleast.

This is slightly off topic but, I think the CnetTV flash interface is very clever and runs far better than players like that on youtube.

Thanks for that. $100 is not a bad price

Member Avatar for roryt

I would have thought it would be more though. Why does it have to be a custom player?

Member Avatar for BamaStangGuy

I would have thought it would be more though. Why does it have to be a custom player?

For branding. I would like to allow others to embed my videos on their sites but want to be able to brand the videos with my logo with the player instead of using a generic free flash video player like I am doing now.

Member Avatar for Member #46692

This is really simple, the actual code to play the video player remains the same.

You just design the buttons. What kind of design were you thinking off. I fancy doing a bit of flash again.

Member Avatar for Member #114696

Sparing $100 on just a Flash Video Player :) :D. I would recommend learn a little bit of actionscript and xml and you will do it.

Its really not a tough job.

Member Avatar for g2gayan

100$ ? too much :) let me do it for 50$ :D :D lol...

its simple task, their are plenty of good tutorials in the internet, follow one of them and create your own one.. .. just let me know if u need a tute..ill post it to here as a favor :)

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Member Avatar for Member #334542

I had done a custom flash video player for a client to play .flv format files with an embedded logo on their video player. I too followed a tutorial and implemnent more for my convenient with cute button designs. If you know flash and have the capability to understand the code and logics. Then you can....

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